POSITION AND PLAN 23 
mediate family whose home it is to be. And 
then there are the neighbors. Not what they 
think — be emancipated from that, in connec- 
tion with home building at least — but how they 
and their grounds and houses are actually 
to be affected. Neighborliness is an old 
fashioned quality to be sure, almost lost to the 
city dweller, but it is a very worthy one, never- 
theless. Doubtless the folks next door are 
“ queer ” — I think none have ever been heard 
of who were not, indeed, almost suspiciously 
queer — but even this constitutional eccentricity 
of theirs should not and need not inhibit the 
true measure of neighborly courtesy and con- 
sideration. 
They are not of necessity hereditary 
enemies, suspicions to the contrary notwith- 
standing; and an actual application of the 
golden rule is possible in all ordinary cases, as 
well as a most satisfactory standard of meas- 
urement. City neighbors, living on either 
side of their party walls or piled one above the 
other’s head, tier on tier, may be less than 
nothing to each other, but suburban neighbors 
are bound to play each a very definite part in 
the other’s life. And well begun is a great 
deal more than half accomplished in this com- 
plex relationship. 
So, if the neighbors are there first, plan not 
